Famous Quotes

"The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not."

Louise J. Kaplan on Teen

More quotes about Teen

• "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

  e. e. cummings on Teen

• "The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."

  John C. Maxwell on Teen

• "As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."

  Johnny Depp on Teen

• "As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."

  Fran Lebowitz on Teen

• "We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."

  Bryan White on Teen

More quotes by Louise J. Kaplan

• "Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future."

• "Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."

• "Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."

• "Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."